Writing & Appearances
In addition to writing books and giving talks, I contribute to television and radio programmes and magazines on a range of subjects. Some are listed below.
Broadcasting
Channel 5
- Tony Robinson's History of Britain - Episode 2 - The Victorians
BBC Radio 4
- Women's Hour - Interview with Jenni Murray - Jilted Brides
BBC Radio Sheffield
- Interview with Rony Robinson - Pit Lasses
Radio Tameside
- Interview with Nigel Skinner - Breach of Promise to Marry
Online Events
The Genealogy Show
- Winter Event 3rd - 5th December 2021
- Participation in the Reading Room, a digital library where guests can search a diverse range of topics, read blogs and book previews.
The Family History Federation
- FHF Really Useful Family History Show, 12th - 13th November 2021
- An online talk about Breach of Promise to Marry
Lectures
Society of Genealogists
- Breach of Promise to Marry
Scottish Mining Museum
- Scotland's Female Miners
Manchester Central Library
- Research Using Newspapers
- Breach of Promise to Marry
Halifax Antiquarian Society
- Pit Lasses
St Albans Museum
- Pit Lasses: The History of
Britain’s Mining Women
The Common Room, Newcastle
- Pit Lasses: Women in Mining
History Features
Discover your Ancestors
- An Act of Kindness - October 2024
- What Our Victorian Ancestors Read - May 2024
- Wearing the Trousers - Print Edition March 2024
- Death by Chocolate - February 2024
- Local Focus - November 2023
- Growing Communities - October 2023
- Injured at Work - August 2023
- A Roof over the Head - May 2023
- The Price of Life - February 2023
- Revisiting Bowton's Yard - January 2023
- Etched into History - July 2022
- Public Bath Houses - April 2022
- Public Parks - February 2022
- Social Mobility in the Nineteenth Century - December 2021
- All in it together - Print Edition September 2021
- A Tale of Two Ancestors - August 2021
- T'was a Rare Affair - May 2021
- I Do or I Sue - August 2020
- Covered Markets and Shopping Arcades - June 2020
- Graffiti - January 2020
- Illustrations - Print Edition 2020
- Thorncliffe Colliery Riot 1870 - November 2019
- Old Age Pensions - August 2019
- Pillar and Post Boxes - March 2019
- What Offended Our Ancestors? - Print Edition 2019
- Crowning Glory or Devil's Mark? - December 2018
- The Great Turf Frauds - September 2018
- Huskar - An Unusual Mining Tragedy - July 2018
- Vinegar Valentines - February 2018
- The Trial of the Century - October 2017
- What's in a Name? - August 2017
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine,
- Expert's Choice - Best Newspaper Website - Christmas 2023
- For the Sake of the Children - March 2020
- Build a Specialist Website - September 2017
- Read all about it - March 2017
Your Family History
- Out of the Doll's House - Women in Public Life July 2017
Discover Your History
- Workers' Gardens - September 2014
- A Soldier's Story - May 2014
- Breach of Promise to Marry - Mar 2014
Jane Austen's Regency World
- The Scandal of being caught up in a Breach of Promise of Marriage case -
January / February 2014.
Memories of Barnsley
- Barnsley's Forgotten Heroines - Winter 2012. Read the text here
BBC History
- The Scandal of Female Miners - October 2012
Tracing Family History
- Lasses Down t' Pit - February 2011. Read the text here
Lancashire Evening Post
- Grim twilight world of the women who worked county’s coal mines - 27th February 2019.
Daily Express
- Revenge of the Jilted Women, 24th February 2014
Blogs
The National Portrait Gallery
- The Scandalous Life of Arthur Shirley, breach of promise defendant -
October 2018
Visit Victorian England
The Newsroom Blog at the British Library
The British Newspaper Archive
Management in the 'Not-for-Profit' Sector
Accountancy Age
- Efficiency in the NHS
Economics, Medicines and Health
- Efficiency in the NHS
Health Director
- Efficiency in the NHS
Managing Schools Today
- Relationships between school and home
Times Educational Supplement
- Safety First
- Rush to appeal turns arbiter into battleground
- Quest for the Perfect Number
- Absence Makes the Head irate
- Pick your Own
- Don't feel cheated
- How to be a better Chair
Education
Child Education
- IT in the Classroom (series)
Education
- School admissions
First Steps
- Child Health
Home and School
- IT features and educational software reviews
Parents
- Expert Panelist for School Admission Questions
Parents and Computers
- Child Safety
Report
- School Admissions
She
- Educational matters